So, the X74 is being scrapped. When it turned up (which it often did not), it was always busy. Now it has been scrapped, lots of local youngsters who attend SGS College in Filton will no longer be able to get to the college easily. What is the council doing about this? Many won’t find out the bus does not run any more until they try
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has finally reached a decision on the future of the hard court area and some of the surrounding grounds at its Brook Way Activity Centre, more than two years after it conducted a public consultation on the future of the site. The matter was tabled for discussion at July’s meeting of Full Council after mayor Cllr
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By Claire Bruford, anti-bullying co-ordinator. At Stoke Lodge Primary School we work very hard to ensure that all children feel safe, happy and are included. At the beginning of the year we became members of the Bullying Intervention Group (BIG) and as part of that, worked towards the BIG Award, which is an award for excellence in bullying intervention. This award
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Pet owners in the area surrounding Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford have access to a very helpful Facebook group, called Lost and Found Pets in Bristol/South Glos. The group has over 17,000 members in the area and is very useful for pet owners. The group was set up by Michelle Pibworth in April 2012 when her own cat Whisky went
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My wife and I do our shopping as often as we can at Yate town centre. There is a very good reason for this, as apart from the much better choice of shops, it’s the flowers – there are hanging baskets throughout the centre (see photo). As you walk through the precinct, you are greeted by these huge hanging baskets
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Police are appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision in Bradley Stoke in which a cyclist suffered multiple injuries. The incident took place at approximately 7.35am yesterday (Wednesday 17th August) on the roundabout junction with Savages Wood Road and Bradley Stoke Way (near Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre). A car, believed to be a burgundy Mercedes A-Class, drove out of Savages Wood
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Parents, youngsters and adult volunteers gathered at Brook Way Activity Centre on Wednesday 13th July for the AGM and open evening of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group. The event was an opportunity for the group to showcase its achievements over the past year, which have included the formation of a marching band and further development of the water activities
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Four-year-old Lily Williams, from Bradley Stoke, is the latest local resident to have her long locks chopped off and donated to the Little Princess Trust. The charity supplies real-hair wigs to boys and girls across the UK and Ireland who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or have conditions which lead to hair loss, such as alopecia. Lily,who
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By Sharon Clark, primary phase headteacher at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). It is hard to believe that a year has passed since we first moved into our new building and began the process of turning the empty rooms into a school community. Almost exactly a year ago to the day, our first cohort of children made their first visits
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Tesco and the BP Pension Fund have sold Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre to CBRE Global Investment Partners (GIP) for £88.8m. The centre was originally developed by Spenhill, the regeneration subsidiary of Tesco, but a 50 percent share was acquired by the BP Pension Fund in July 2008, three months before the centre opened, forming an £80 million joint venture.
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